ApolloniA's · Dolls

I haven't updated this blog since...since forever! I had even forgotten my password!!!

A lot of things have changed, but since this blog is not about my personal life I will just say "life sucks sometimes, but I'm still alive".

Toy-wise, what have I been doing? Well, a couple of commission dolls and toys and even a commission christmastree! Yes, a small BLACK table xmastree, decorated with hand-sculpted skulls and such. It was for a tattoo and piercing parlor. :) I only have one blurry shot of it, but I'll show it to you anyway. I'll put all the pics in the end of this post, cause there are many.

Right now there's a Living dead dolls custom competition on the official LDD-forum, and this year I participated too. It should be easy enough to spot my gory entry, although the names of the artists aren't revealed until the voting is over.

I have also joined Turku's dollhouseclub, which gathers once a month to make miniatures for dollhouses. Lots of fun! ^^ And I've also made a little house ofr my petite blythes out of a yellow lantern I bought for a couple of euros. I made it almost disgustingly cute. And oh gosh, I started crocheting too, even though I never liked crocheted dollclothes before. I guess I need to make these pink happy things to keep a balance, all that blood and gore demand something cute and cuddly. Or...that's what I keep telling myself to avoid the thought of a split personality xD.

Oh dear, I just realized you haven't even seen my Alice in Wonderland commission dolls, have you?

I guess it's time for pictures then!

We are hoping to find a new and bigger appartment and move in it in July, so we need lots of money which we don't have. So I've decided to let go of some of my babies.

If interested, send me your maximum offer via e-mail.

wild_rose_queen@yahoo.com

I was thinking I'd take offers until Friday, but if not any interest, til next week's Friday. Payments via Paypal.

Norna Oeneis, my 2nd LDD-custom. She was originally ms Eerie and she's inpired by the HIM song Wings of the butterfly. She's got pink rooted mohair-mix soft hair and butterfly make-up. On her back she has scars of wings being cut off.

(Gnash the demon bunny not included)




Then there's a demon bunny King Ankheg, that I was supposed to give my friend, but we're not friends anymore. He's in the next picture with Ella



And then there's an ugly doll I've sculpted, Depressed Amelia, who has a demon dog coming out of her.





I have to check if I have some more. I hope I get to keep Ella and my bjd's, except for my lovely Honey-sempai, I'm afraid he has to go :(

...you never know what happens next. We were supposed to get a puppy in the autumn, we were on the waiting list for Kuuhaukun old line husky puppy, but then it happened, that a 4 month old old line puppy from Austria was looking for a new home. He was already in Finland, but the owner's husband was seriously allergic so they had to give him up asap. So... he came to live with us. Now we need a bigger apartment before next year, he's already quite big even though he's just 4 months old.

His name is Fiandor of Celtic Wolves, we call him Kendo. He learned to love us in a day (he came yesterday), but he can't stand being alone for one minute :(, I missed my exam today, because I could hear Kendo barking, howling and punching the door far, so I had to turn back home before neighbours give me a goodbye-card....

But here he is:



Because of this surprising new family member, I have to take a couple of days/weeks brake from arts. He would eat my stuff :D

So... I decided to start yet another dolls and crafts related hobby: dollhouses. I've already bought a house to start with, but it hasn't arrived yet. In the meanwhile I've been planning the interior. At first I wanted to make a huge antique mansion, but after browsing dozens of dollhouse pages I decided not to, because 99% is doing antique mansion style already.  So I'm starting with something different. Although I'm pretty sure that at some point I will have to make my own mansion anyway :D....

So, cause I lack patience, I've already started to make some stuff for the house. Here are my first tiny bits: tea set, tea table and a small shelf. It was a lot of funto make these, although I haven't worked with glue and wood since elementary school. I don't like the plates I made of Fimo, I could've made them much more carefully... I do like the teapot, though.

I'm sculpting some dolls at the moment, it's fun :) I'll take pics when I get to finish all of them.

You enjoy staying in your own little world for hours, doing things that other people don't always understand. The finished product can be wonderful but you have to do it on your own time, without outside pressure. When you're bent on something, no one else can distract you.

Our Potentially Ridiculous Hobby Suggestion For You: Quad rule paper art Don't have quad rule paper? Make your own! Then color in the boxes to make facinating designs. It takes forever but it's quite fun.

Your scores: Focused 23.21 Resourceful 20.9 Motivated 20.68 Creative 20.2 Serious 14.69

So, I got to finish the royal ghost a couple of days ago, but wanted to make a romantic photoshoot in the sunset, so I had to wait a bit for a perfect weather . But here we go:

King wanted to live forever with his love. The story goes that he chopped down some branches of the tree of life to grant himself and his queen an eternal life, but it was against the rules... so he got cursed, and was given the eternal death. He aged fast, became pale and weak... a white tree grew out his chest... and his speech became hollow, howling and whispering. His queen, still young and beautiful, was so sad about what happened to her love, that she decided to jump off a cliff. But they were bound together by love... so her soul couldn't rest either. Years passed and people forgot their real names... now they're only known as King Void and Queen Distress.